the wave of anti-war protests in gulf turkey with activists accusing the government of being a u.s. stooges as anchor authorize possible military action against syria. the u.k. military ngs to balance its books by laying off thousands of soldiers while still throwing billions of malfunctioning military machines. plus the first t.v. duel with mitt romney leaves a bitter taste for president obama critics say the whole concept of a two party debate is just plain undemocratic.

a.t.m. in the russian capital he watching r.t. was me wearing a joshua welcome to the program now what began as a peaceful anti-war demonstration turned ugly in the turkish capital ankara after riot police moved in to disperse the crowd officers fired tear gas and used water cannon as well as smoke grenades against the activists with many bystanders also getting caught up in the melee thousands also poured into the streets of a stamboul to demonstrate against the policies of turkey's ruling party the wave of popular discontent was sparked by the parliament's approval of cross border military action to syria which could pave the way to a full scale war war and that from artie's policy or. well as expected the took his parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of also wising military operations in syria what this does mean is that it now has given the green light for cross border . peroration is the deputy turkish prime minister though has gone on record as

saying this is not a declaration of war but it certainly is sending out. messages we're also hearing from turkish officials that they are complaining that they have still not received a formal apology or explanation for the mortar that was fired from syrian territory and which landed into a key on wednesday while turkey continued to fire artillery at syrian targets into the early hours of tuesday morning the exact extent of the turkish operation is still unclear but according to several sources there were several syrian soldiers who were killed in these military strikes so certainly the turks have been very quick to go on the offensive for the syrian side they are urging restraint they have formally given condolences to the families and friends of those who were killed and at the same time that they have said they are launching an investigation it's still not clear who exactly fired this move into turkish territory it did land

in a residential building killing five members of one family and through that injuring another thirteen people falsely reported there are now turkey says it has no intentions to start a war with syria but political analysts covering the middle east charminar want access doesn't necessarily have to engage in direct military action against the embattled state to defeat it. turkey declared war on syria long time ago this is aired on endeavor to lose war they've supplied weapons and they've supplied training assistant they've harbored you know gunmen in jihad just on their territory so so you know turkey's at a situation no crossroads where they cannot seem to get the international system they need to sort of you know do a last push against the assad regime they cannot get a u.n. security council resolution to authorize these things and this may be you know setting the groundwork a pretext for a backdoor into military intervention because of course turkey been caught it can

call on its nato allies to to assist and it's centrally the nato allies who would anyways do you know a military confrontation with the assad regime if there was a u.n. security council resolution so you know and there are questions about this is this the false. you know who are a shown to to sort of set the grounds for military intervention there's been many false narratives over syria i think this is just another one the members of the u.n. security council have delivered a joint condemnation of the deadly attack of the turkish village artist more in a fortnight reports from new york well the un security council agreed and issued a presidential statement strongly condemning wednesday's mortar attack by syria on a turkish border town that as we already heard as killed people and in danger and several others the council called on the syrian government to fully respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors and the called on all

concerned parties to exercise maximum restraint a presidential statement issued by the council also demanded that quote such violations of international law stop immediately and are not repeated mortar fire from syria had its out in turkey on wednesday and that's when the security council began deliberating this presidential statement earlier on thursday the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon. also voiced his alarm at escalating tensions along the syrian turkish border and the un itself there's a lot of divisions over how to solve this crisis that it escalates and everybody within the security council in the u.n. is trying to ease tensions that are growing not only within syria but now on the border between syria and turkey. a timeline of events and more analysis of the story is available at r.t. dot com and there you can also find more on the ripple effect on running syrian crisis sending to its neighboring states. well

iraq is one of them in the later this hour r.t. talks to the country's prime minister who says peace can be brought to syria through weapons and foreign troops. the us presidential candidates barack obama and mitt romney have addressed the earth supporters following their first t.v. debate polls showed romney overwhelmed incumbent obama in the dual commanding the ninety minute debate but ragnarsson presidential candidate for the justice party thinks two parties ultimately dominate the u.s. politics is unhealthy for america. i left the democratic party and helped form the justice party because now the republican and democratic parties are simply one do up only they have a stranglehold on our electoral system from the stage of getting on the ballot all the way through the debate process and they have both been bought and paid for by the same special interests we have a plutocracy not a democracy in the united states where our government is for sell to the highest

bidder romney would bring us along the same path that led to the economic disaster in two thousand and eight with huge tax cuts for the wealthy enormous deficits low unemployment rates and president obama has a pathetic record he's the only president that has presided over three years of unemployment of over eight percent that absolutely can be changed but what we know that that's what the american people want it's simply that we don't have those elected to office that are willing to take on those special interest. now political cartoonists and columnist ted rall says americans are seeking and new policy vision for the nation. it's very hard to tell to see how mitt romney can overcome the lead in the key swing states that obama currently enjoys which considering the state of the economy over the last four years is say something about the ineptitude of the

romney campaign now that said he did outperform expectations last night and you know he's still in the game if he continues to surge and does better in the future debates it's possible that despite my vote it will be able to turn against obama and go for romney in a two party system that's all we really have what was very strange is how the democrats who typically identify better with the poor and downtrodden fail to humanize their point of view you know vomit tucked constantly in. about how the different approach rather than how do you different vision americans don't want a different approach we want to different vision and we want solutions mitt romney talked about people who are hurting in the midwest people who are unemployed whom he met and asked for his help that's the kind of thing that obama should have done it's really politics want to one and somehow he was just really are. also the latest addition to our team is debate show cross dissected the first t.v.

debate between romney and obama to find out where the president went wrong here's a taste of what's coming at six thirty g.m.t. . well one thing that both mitt romney and barack obama can agree on is who they don't want to win venezuela's presidential election this sunday coming which obvious faces off against a pro washington challenger as hundreds of thousands of voters rally in support of fourteen years of textbooks socialism more of that in just a few minutes here in our. the british army is the latest victim of the country's seemingly endless susteren a drive with eight thousand fewer u.k. soldiers reporting for duty come the new year but as our reports when it comes to funding expensive war toys britain apparently has money to burn. the number of soldiers in the british army is being cut back by a fifth as you can see here that's quite a significant reduction is going to mean the smallest british army since before the

napoleonic wars eight thousand u.k. troops face christmas as unemployed civilians defense secretary philip pam and insists the cuts a necessary to balance the defense budget yet at the same time the u.k. is committed to remaining one of the biggest military spending is in the world well any modern army even if it cuts its troops needs up to date equipment but take a look at these the british government has spent some two billion pounds on developing remote control attacks drones since two thousand and seven but home grown u.k. drones don't have a good track record how about the watch keep a drone this nifty piece of military equipment has already cost the u.k. taxpayers eight hundred million pounds it was meant to be up and flying by now it isn't yet ready and now running two under half years late they want to keep its predecessor it was a drone called the phoenix that proved so unreliable that an army suckles it became

known as the bugger off because it often left on missions never to return the phoenix was such an epic fail that it was used as an example of the quote dismal failure of the british drone for systems engineering students in one u.k. university and the cost of this techno flop two billion pounds in fact the ministry of defense is attempt to balance its books has actually contributed to an increase in spending on equipment something those troops facing their final paycheck in the coming weeks will find hard to stomach. r.t. . now more stories features videos and analysis is in store for you on the web including madoff in the big apple jewish and christian activist groups to respond to the antis lama's poster campaign with a message of tolerance. an eleven year old boy from northern siberia has made a mammoth discovery on covering

a thirty thousand year old animal buried in her frosts. after a long and bitterly fought campaign but israel is now braced for a presidential elections on sunday but both candidates and come an obvious and his rival and break a cup realist certainly made the most of their last day on the trail out of arties lucy coffin of discovered after fourteen years in power the president can still draw a crowd. that

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private eyes the venezuelan economy is against almost all welfare programs and is a diehard supporter of israel and south american political analyst says it's no surprise washington wants to see each of us out. he has taken a stance which is very highly respected throughout many of these of latin america showing that the united states. not just in the middle east but worldwide and not so much that are attacked by the united states especially at a time when in two thousand and eight the united states has reactivated the fourth south atlantic fleet and they now have a very strong military presence throughout latin america in the south atlantic just as they have engineered insurrection and civil war which seems to be washington's specialisation in the so-called arab spring in the theater here and that merkel we will be seeing a latin american spring with different characteristics but where the united states will meddle in the internal affairs of places like that is with us and they will

even trigger and activate a generalized latin american spring which will be turmoil social unrest and even civil war and greek riot forces have fired tear gas to disperse dozens of protesters who gathered outside police headquarters in athens taft or or shipyard or hearst tried to storm the country's defense ministry complaining haven't been paid for happy year five people were injured in the clashes and seventy people were arrested and taken away in police vans comes as greece negotiates a fresh cut package with international planners in exchange for and now their cash injection. i don't point and desperate struggle to make ends meet is forcing families in greece to make heartbreaking decisions on able to feed and clothe their children parents across the country are putting their offspring into foster homes but all over now reports on how charities try to shield the young from the crisis was too young to understand why but on the front line of the day crisis rampant

unemployment in greece and the slashing of social benefits has left their parents with no money to provide even their most basic needs for nice. the month thinkable has happened these children are being taken into care. for during the past two years we have seen a large rise in the number of children coming to us because their families can't support them because taxes and prices have risen things like food clothing schooling and housing have become too expensive. before the financial crisis this children's village which is run by the organization s.o.'s children usually looked after kids who'd been the victims of abuse now they say almost all new cases are as a result of the debt crisis this center privately funded through donations is also feeling the pinch. we've seen

a significant drop off in donations people get what they can but that is getting worse and worse and also we are taxed on what we receive making it more of a burden to buy things we need like fuel for heating. the charity says there's been a seventy percent increase in requests for help this children's village is home to forty youngsters near to thessaloniki and is operating at close to maximum capacity i'm a grandmother who asked not to be identified because of the stigma attached she says she was forced to give up her young daughter after losing her job. it was a norful decision to have to make what could i do there was no money and no work i asked her if she thought they would ever be reunited as a family now if things are going from bad to worse here it could be ten years before greece is back me the s.o.'s children makes a point of trying to keep youngsters in contact with their biological parents for

this family that means one emotional meeting once a month organizations like this one of becoming increasingly important to help protect a generation of children ripped from their families due to greece is fine. failings . with the greek government using having to make for over ten billion euros the children's village expects to be receiving more pleas for help in the future so this mother and daughter the help they get allows them to appreciate the three d. moments they can spend together these are all of the party greece. teen elementary school students have been killed in a landslide in southwest china medics police and military personnel are searching for any survivors trapped under the rubble the landslide came down early in the morning hitting the school and nearby houses and blocking a river over eight hundred people were evacuated from the region and although it

was a holiday in china the children still went to school to make up for the days they had missed because of an earthquake which hit the region last month. a massive rival demonstrations are expected in jordan's capital amman around two hundred thousand supporters of king abdullah's reforms and about fifty thousand backers of the opposition muslim brotherhood party are expected to gather for peaceful rallies at the same venue on friday earlier the king dissolved parliament clearing the way for new elections and he pledged to introduce more reform aiming to avoid arab spring style on the rest the country has already faced in nearly twenty months of protests with people demanding more say in how the state is wrong. dozens of doctors nurses and hospital officials were arrested across the u.s. over allegations of fraud and they are accused of illegally gathering information about participants of the government's medicare program the data was used to submit bills for treatment and medication that was needed or it never took place this

allegedly allowed as medical personnel to pocket four hundred thirty million dollars. a desperate picture is emerging in an indian region once dubbed the country's breadbasket the flourishing farming community has seemingly give it into drugs with addiction tainting almost every part of life there are pretty shooter has a story. almost two thousand kilometers from the war zone in afghanistan and women like smith rocor are fighting a battle of their own in punjab india and i doubt my son lives with me we lost his father to drugs and recently lost his elder brother to drugs everyone in the neighborhood is brought to you taking up drugs and if my son or i them who will look after the children going in. once known as one of the most prosperous states in india punjab is now one of the biggest drug trafficking hubs in the world officials say most of the confiscated drugs are coming from nearby afghanistan the

largest global producer of opium and the situation is getting worse the united nations has reported that opium production has more than doubled in afghanistan since the united states invaded the country in two thousand and one critics say that nato and the united states have not done enough to eradicate the narcotics producing poppy fields which they say is the afghans biggest source of income. is such a culture would lead is such a bankrupt lead used to its condition. trysts so resistant to anything you see the community is hardened it's of so much so they're not going to listen to you if you say looks nice you know stop going to await the drug addiction problem in punjab this becomes so bad that at spirit say that one in three people are actually addicted to drugs and in this area alone people say that

seventy percent of the people that's when the ages of fifteen and thirty five are addicts it's the drugs and that's not good news for these women smithville course community has now become known as the village of widows because of all the men who have died from drug addiction. now many bring their children to this. cool where sixteen percent of the six hundred fifty children are orphans most of their parents died from drug related debts mainly through private donations they are all able to get an education for free but it's little consolation for what many fear could become a lost generation in punjab if more action against drug trafficking isn't taken again i think if something happens to my son will happen to the family where. can i bring them up my so. far from the bullets and explosives in afghanistan and the people of punjab wonder how they too can escape the war that has started to impact

millions of their own preassure either r t india. time now for business and dates and anything interesting happening in the financial world good morning there well we have a couple of records that are being broken i'll get to that in a second and of course what investors will be looking out today when it comes to asia investors are waiting for a key this isn't from the central bank of japan and also there will be a jobs report coming out from the us later in the days of many of us is looking forward to that right now we see that the nikkei is adding almost half a percent and that is slightly better but also imposed of territory if we move on say would be a sure thing let's talk about samsung electronics which has reported record profits in the third quarter that was for advice on sales of the galaxy smart phones electronic giants operating profit jumps ninety one percent to seven billion dollars which is almost double last year and the buyer than analyst expectations

that's not all of them as it's currently battling over it's. also facebook says the number of active monthly users has top one billion it's roughly half of the internet users in the world and double the social networks years ago the average age. a facebook user is twenty two and his country of origin as likely to be brazil india or in the shop analysts say the latest milestone raises questions whether facebook can profit from its giants user base. and consumer with the markets it's less than two hours and so the opening here and moscow we see that in the previous session both the r.t.s. and the my sites lost over half a percent. in the oil price was hardly a surprise if we move all the and take a look at currencies and slew of the euro dollar rubles that when it comes to the euro it is a weakening against the u.s. all about as you can see there by the numbers

a small that's when it comes to the ruble and that the previous session the mix that numbers there on your screen over continue with oil prices which always have a major effect on the russian economy all prices right now are dropping and fact they're heading for the third weekly decline that's after going to the highest level in almost seen months in the previous session but there is speculation that big gains there war exaggerated and made rise in supply so that's why we see the numbers going down and then i want to talk about s.a.p.o. which is one of the world's a biggest business software firms and the song a bellwether for judge in the global economy the health of it and our business editor nick paul caught up with the c.e.o. of the company that's bill mcdermott and first he started by asking them about how the downturn has affected if it has the company and for coverage has taken hold here's what he had say. the first shot over the bow in two thousand and eight was the women crisis and we saw

a billion euros in business frees up in the last two weeks of that september so it was a difficult time and one of the good things about those times is they don't last fortunately and since then s.c.p. obviously has done so much innovation and really excelled but that was one of the things the world i think will always remember. what everybody will see of course is all we would see at least from a piece point of view do you get the feeling that in tough times you actually need a c.p.u. just as much as in good times or when you're trying to grow we're kind of on both sides of that conversation and in some conversations it's more efficiency driven in others it's more growth driven but overall the environment is good for what we do how much of a focus is becoming and what significance does russia play in a growth strategy and then focus the emerging markets for us grow at a rate three to four times faster than our more mature markets so

a lot of the customers in russia as an example are uninitiated on an earpiece system or a business software system like s.a.p.'s so there's a huge opportunity to get net new customers especially small and mid-size companies . as i said as i want to try to write nasa more about that next hour all right definitely thanks very much for this marina and coming up shortly our to discuss this with iraq's prime minister possible ways of resolving the syrian crisis and easing tensions across the arab world. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture.

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